This blog explores how music's creative principles and practices can be applied to everyday life and work.

Monday, 1 June 2015

Apply the 'Broadwood Effect'.

In the spring of 1818 the English piano makers Broadwood and Sons sent
Beethoven a new grand piano. It was the latest model with a bigger, stronger
tone and an increased range of notes.Getting the piano to Beethoven was expensive, time consuming and arduous. It
had to be shipped to Trieste and then carried by mules to Vienna through jagged
mountain passes and over rough, energy sapping dirt tracks.It was all worth it. Beethoven took to his new piano immediately and it
inspired him to create one of his greatest piano Sonatas, No 29 in B flat Major,
Opus 106 ‘Hammerklavier’.The message here is simple. If you put significant time, money and effort
into providing people with good quality and inspiring resources, the return on
your investment can be very great indeed.The next time you are in need of inspiring ideas apply the 'Broadwood
Effect'. What will inspire people to inspiring ideas?To see the 'Creativity in the Air' workshop click Here.www.tallistraining.co.uk

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Charles M Lines trained as a musician and studied composition at the Colchester School of Music during the early 1980s. He joined the UK Civil Service in 1984 where he worked for various government departments, eventually specialising in management consultancy, training and development. In 1996 he became a Senior Lecturer at the UK Civil Service College.

At the age of 41 he left the Civil Service to work as an independent management consultant and trainer. He has since been in demand both at home and abroad, providing management consultancy and training events to a very wide range of clients.

He speaks and writes regularly about creative problem solving and how music's creative principles and practices can help us all be more creative in our approach to life and work.